Democrats shouldn’t run from single-player health- care system

“GOP tries to tie Nelson to Single Payer.” This headline caught my eye. At first I thought I read it wrong.

The GOP has been trying to take away health care from millions of Americans to save the richest people in the country thousands of dollars in taxes — while at the same time trying to keep the system of private health insurance a money-making machine for private insurance companies. And now Republicans want to use the idea of single-payer health care for all citizens against the Democrats?

The GOP has brainwashed Americans into believing that, somehow, a convoluted private health insurance system works better for them than a single-payer system would.

This despite the fact that nearly every other democracy in the world has some form of health care for all its citizens. The American voter is easily manipulated, especially by fear.

Millions of Americans paid their entire working lives for Social Security and Medicare, and yet nearly all those who live to reap the benefits would not change the system.

Health care, or Medicare for all, would so greatly benefit the average citizen if only people weren't conditioned against it.

Democrats should stop shying away from an idea that separates them from Republicans. They should promote a single-payer system that will improve the lives of all Americans, not just the wealthy.

It's not a revolutionary idea, or some grand experiment. It's what all our counterparts in the world enjoy. Don't we deserve to have what they have?

Ken Vollbracht, Palm City

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